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Jonathan Bruce

Jonathan Bruce



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Jonathan Bruce is Program Manager at DataDirect Technologies, an operating company of Progress Software. He has led and participated in four JSRs (114, 169, 54 and 220), including JDBC RowSet Implementations, JDBC CDC/FP, JDBC 3.0 and JDBC 4.0. A frequent speaker at a variety of industry events, Jonathan helps Java and .NET developers alike to take advantage of the benefits XQuery offers when working with XML and a variety of databases.. Recently re-located from San Fransisco to North Carolina, Jonathan spends his weekends running, sailing and travelling.

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The JDBC RowSet Implementations Tutorial
In this tutorial, we look at how to use the standard JDBC RowSet implementations specified in JSR-114. JDBC RowSets are provided as part of Java 5.0, supplying both a standard set of level APIs and production-ready reference implementation that will work with any JDBC-3.0-compliant driver.  Oct. 15, 2004



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Seeking your feedback on XQJ: JSR-225 goes Public Draft Review...
Posted by jonbruce on June 12, 2007 at 11:12 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

XQuery 1.0 achieves Final Recommendation: XQuery 1.0 goes W3C's equivalent of GA today.
Posted by jonbruce on January 23, 2007 at 12:40 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

Ridiculousness of JavaOne reviews ratings...:
Posted by jonbruce on July 06, 2006 at 15:21 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

A Java Perspective on LINQ:
Posted by jonbruce on May 30, 2006 at 14:02 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

XQJ Reaches EDR II: XQuery made a significant step forward on the Java platform. As a member of the EG, we are very interested to hear your feedback.
Posted by jonbruce on May 15, 2006 at 14:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

No JavaOne this year...: No JavaOne for me this year, but all signs point to a coming out party for Java EE 5, the nascent efforts I recall very well back in SCA-14.
Posted by jonbruce on May 01, 2006 at 09:38 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

XQuery meets REST: XQuery meets REST
Posted by jonbruce on January 12, 2006 at 14:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Why sign a jar?: I was recently asked, why would you ever need to sign a jar? What advantage does it give me?
Posted by jonbruce on November 08, 2005 at 11:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

Persistence Stew II: JDJ Article (JDBC - The Indipensible Component of Persistence Mechanisms): JDJ Article on the importance of picking the best-of-breed components no matter what ORM mechanism works for you.
Posted by jonbruce on October 17, 2005 at 15:03 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Persistence Stew: Hibernate, JDO, EJB 3.0 and Oracle Toplink:
Posted by jonbruce on September 28, 2005 at 07:52 PST | Permalink | Discuss (2)  

XQuery launches for the Java Platform: DataDirect launches XQuery for the Java platform
Posted by jonbruce on September 20, 2005 at 06:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

We're coming to see you...: Wondering where ODBC, ADO.NET Futures, XQuery and XQJ Futures and of course JDBC Futures are headed? DataDirect's Design Previews may just be the thing for you...
Posted by jonbruce on August 06, 2005 at 06:58 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

XQuery meets Tivo - (Part I): JavaOne 2005 saw much chatter around XML bindings slatted for Dolphin, alignment around JBI but it also saw important presentations given on XQuery and what it means for today's Java developer.
Posted by jonbruce on July 06, 2005 at 08:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Recovery from JavaOne: Live 8:
Posted by jonbruce on July 01, 2005 at 13:01 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Blogging Java code - standard mark-up tools?: I find myself more and more frequently writing blogs that include extensive code blocks -- I'm looking for away to automatically mark-up the code that I can publish to a blog that will similar to what any credible IDE will do automatically.
Posted by jonbruce on May 20, 2005 at 10:29 PST | Permalink | Discuss (6)  

Recent finding: XQuery Adoption Rate Soaring?: In a recent developer survery conducted amoungst XML developers, some interesting findings jump out immediately: '52% of XML developers have already started working with XQuery in the last 12 months and another 33% have plans to start using XQuery in 2005'
Posted by jonbruce on March 29, 2005 at 11:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (4)  

XQuery Blog: DataDirect XQuery Blog Portal
Posted by jonbruce on March 12, 2005 at 15:53 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

A new face in XQuery: Over the next few weeks, I hope to have my blog up and running here at DataDirect Technologies. In the interim, some public announcements were made today.
Posted by jonbruce on January 25, 2005 at 13:57 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

From JDBC to XQuery: This will be my last JDBC blog on Java.net. I am moving to a new position on the East Coast to head up Technology Evangalism for XQuery for Progress Software.
Posted by jonbruce on December 17, 2004 at 11:30 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

Sun Java System AppServer and Apache Derby: Continuing a blog discussing how to configure Sun Java System Application Server 8.0 with MySQL, Lance Andersen has posted an excellent article on how to get Sun Java System Application Server to work with Apache Derby.
Posted by jonbruce on November 09, 2004 at 09:44 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JDBC 4.0 Expert Meeting: Tomorrow, Monday October 25th, we start a two day expert meeting to drive our specification efforts towards an early draft review publication of JDBC 4.0.

We have a full agenda and will be discussing the details of various components that make up the JDBC 4.0 specification including Ease-of-Development, XML and advanced Connection management
Posted by jonbruce on October 24, 2004 at 14:54 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JSR-114 & J2SE 5.0 (Tiger) Released!: I've talked about JDBC RowSet Implementations and their general availability in in our Java Community Process release in addition to our Java Web Services Pack 1.4 Co-Bundle. With J2SE 5.0 now as a GA, production ready realease, our already broad user base can now enjoy JDBC RowSet Implementations as part of the core Java platform.
Posted by jonbruce on October 01, 2004 at 15:28 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

Sun Java System Application Server 8.0 and MySQL: We get alot of requests in the J2EE group for advice on how to get the Sun Java System Application Server to run with MySQL, especially when deploying non-EJB web application. I thought putting something together with the Java Blue Prints team and working with MySQL, we would place the the following as a guide on how to do this best.
Posted by jonbruce on August 06, 2004 at 00:14 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JDBC RowSet Implementations 1.0.1 - Maintenance Release: We have just released our first Maintenance Release of JDBC RowSet Implementations. Check out the JDBC Technology Homepage to grab your latest copy.
Posted by jonbruce on July 16, 2004 at 08:13 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

JDBC 4.0 @ JavaOne - Opportunity to give additional feedback...: With so many excellent questions at our JDBC 4.0 session this year, we want to make sure that we account for all over your comments, questions and concerns. This is your opportunity to echo your questions if you did not get a chance to ask either of us at this year's JavaOne.
Posted by jonbruce on July 02, 2004 at 12:35 PST | Permalink | Discuss (1)  

JDBC RowSet Co-Bundle for JWSDP 1.4: So why provide a JDBC RowSet co-bundle for the Java Web Services Pack 1.4 ? Many of you have contacted us with various questions on how to use the standard RowSet definitions and reference implementations that we have provided as part of JSR-114.
Posted by jonbruce on June 28, 2004 at 23:04 PST | Permalink | Discuss (3)  

JavaOne 2004 -- Day one: My impressions of JavaOne so far as that the community is as energized as ever...
Posted by jonbruce on June 28, 2004 at 13:46 PST | Permalink | Discuss (0)  

Exception chaining in JDBC: Exception chaining has become an increasingly popular pattern as a way to better manage exceptions. As part of JDBC 4.0, we are giving consideration to introducing exception chaining to the primary exception class definition: java.sql.SQLException.
Posted by jonbruce on June 15, 2004 at 09:55 PST | Permalink | Discuss (11)  

JDBC 4.0, and JDBC Performance at JavaOne 2004: Ease of Development is a core driver for much of the work underway in many JSRs - particularily JDBC 4.0. At JavaOne this year we will be talking about some of early draft proposals and I will presenting our ideas, including code examples.
Posted by jonbruce on June 08, 2004 at 11:43 PST | Permalink | Discuss (8)  

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